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f orf security, too! Volume xxxiii No. so 7 The Most Widely Read Newspaper Along The Central Carv&a Coast 12 PAGES THIS WEEK. BEAUFORT, N. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1944 12 PAGES THIS WEEK PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Caiferet's Natural Resources BFT. M-C VOTE Of TYPHUS COHTROL wan supply xuuu iui mi Beaufort Rotary Given Indications of Coun ty's Resources by Scientist WEAVER PUSHES FOR IIEWHOMES Land Titles Being Searched This Wk. Special Meetings set On Rat Eradica tion Problems The building of fifty modern home in Beaufort came closer to realization this week as lawyers representing the promoter, W. H. Weaver of Greensboro, searched land titles in the Court House. Reports from reliable source! wehe that final negotiations rela tive to transfer of the land titles from the present owners, C. W. Britton, and B. B. Montague to the $100,000 Beaufort Housing Corporation of which .Mr. Weaver is president, would be consumated next week. i The Britton property involved is that known as the Ocean Breeze Section and the Montague proper ty known as the Montague Devel opment., Both pieces adjoin with a frontage of nearly a quarter of a mile on Front and Ann Streets. Mr. Weaver has already stated that he will start building as soon as he can. Some of the homes will be rented, others sold with pvice3 ranging around $6,000. Farmers Must Use Fertilizer Before End of The Year The Carteret . County AAA of fices will be closed from the 23rd to 27th. December inclusive for the Christmas holidays according to B. J. May, Secretary of the ' County Committee. All farmers who have received lime, phosphate or Austrian winter peas through the AA Program for use in 1944, and who have not used these mater ials to date should do so at once and report to the AAA office not later than Dec. 22. Proper use of these materials will constitute full payment. If the materials are not used by December 31, 1944 it win be necessary to transfer the ma terial to the 1945 Program and the farm will not be eligible to re ceive as much material during 1945 as would otherwise be pos sible Mr. May stated. All farmers who have not done so should complete all practices for 1944 and report to the County office at once. If the total farm al lowance has not been taken up in material the farmer way i th:.; time sign his A. C. P. application for payment on any practices he has carried out without the aid of AAA Conservation materials. The soil and waters of Carter et County are crowded with enough job and business opportunities to provide excellent livelihoods for every returning Carteret service man and woman A. J. Pacini, Ph. D., told the Beaufort Rotary Club Tuesday evening at the Inlet Inn. Dr. Pacini is Director of Re search and Production for the American Chlorophyll Corpora tion of which Van Sant, Inc., the east coasts pioneer sea-weed chemical factory, is an affiliate. Each of North Carolina's 100 counties is alive with opportuni ties arid Carteret is in the fore front Dr. Pacini said, pointing out that theVan Sant exploitation of he agar producing sea-weed growing naturally in Carteret wa ters is but one evidence of the multitude of opportunities. A glimpse of the magnitude of the local sea-weed industry was to be optained in Dr. Pacini's state ment that Van Sant must have a minimumTonnage of 10,000,000 pounds of sea-weed to permit of the plant's operation. Furthermore, he said, the huge tonnage must be secured during the months of July and August and in the early days of Septem ber. - " Sea-weed lifted from the sea in any other months is low in the needed chemidal qualities. While the plant must have raw sea-weed continually for twelve-months op eration nevertheless emphasis is placed by Van Sant on July and August "harvesting and, in turn, on husbanding of sea weed rejour- ces during the other ten months of the year.!v Al Skille, a representative of the Curtiss -Wright Corporation, was present as guest of Jake Mil ler. Numa F. Eurcp resided in the absence of President James Canady. CARTERET BOYS IN THE SERVICE J C'S SPONSOR FLIGHT SCHOOL Robert L. Dennis, HA lc, USNR, ; son of Mr. and -Mrs. Robert L. j DeaiaiOrt UfOUp Dennis, Sr., has been transit tred from Camp Allen, Norfolk, Va., to Port Hueneme, Calif. A large number ol interested cit'zeus is e:p-;ctr;d to attend the sp. eial meeting of the Board of Commissioners called by Mayo: Bayiud Taylor for Monday evening at 7:30 in the Beaufort Tovnhall to vote on whether to undertake a State Health Department plan to rid Baaufort of rats, the source of typhus. Mayor Willis has calleda meet ing of Morehead City Board of Commissioners for the following Tuesday evening, to take a similar vote. Atlantic Beach and the Camp Glenn area are expected to fo'iow the lead of Beaufort and More- head City and give support to the program. William Earl Guthrie USX, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Guthrie, was here for the week-end from Bainbridge, Md. Undertakes Preflight School and a County Advertising Program Charles Robinson, SC 3c, USN, has arrived for a leave of several weeks, after spending two years a way from home on a tour of duty that has taken him very actively into the Pacific War Theatre. Arthur Barnhil, USN, returned last week to Bainbridge, Md., where he is in Ralio School, after a visit here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Barnhill. If you want to fly your own plane the Beaufort Jaycees wili do everything to help you except pay for the plane. A complete Civil Air Patrol pro gram will get under way after the first of the year under Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsor ship unanimously voted Monday night in regular dinner session at the Inlet Inn. Al Skarren Saw this Tokyo Bombing Business Started Now Wallace Storekeeper He Wa Aboard "Hornet" When Doolittle Left for Japan CARTERET LAGS IN SALE OF CLASS E BONDS Mrs. G. W. Duncan's Brother Killed Mrs. Graham W. Duncan rece ived word on Tuesday that her brother, Corporal Charles .'jytle was killed in maneuvers in Okla homa. Mrs. Duncan left immedi atey for the home of her parents. Mr. and Mis. Charles P. Lytle, in Old Fort. Four of Mrs. Duncan's brothers were in the Service. One, Brooks Lytle, was recently discharged as the result of physical ailments. Corporal Charles Lytle is sur vived by his wife and four small children, the eldest eight years of age. Morehead Housing Corporation Formed Morehead Housing Corporation has a certification for incorpora tion on file today with Secre tary of State. With authorized capital of $100,000, R. A. Bryan of Goldsboro and E. J. Fulghum and J. W. York of Raleigh have subscribed for $300 of stock. WOOLARD MAGAZINE CENTER IN NEW QUARTERS As outlined by E. L. Hinton of the State Health Department the entire program will cost More head, Beaufort and the surround ing towns which may join, no more than their pro-rata share of a to tal monthly cost of $150, a sum sufficient, according to Hinton, to pay a permanent rat control spec ialist to continue the work which the State Health Department will start. The State Health Department rat-rfiddance program calls far rat poisoning as a secondary measure with rat-proofing of all buildings in the business and wharf sec tions as the primary measure. Cost of rat-proofing the affect ed buildings will, according to the plan, be charged to the owner's of J the buildings, such cost IIiuion sr.id. vrning from nothing to as much as $200. Rat-proofing :osts in Concord, Wilson, Rocky Mount, where State Health Department programs are now "being carried on, are averaging about $40 a building. ' The State Health Department ' will require that each mnuicipality in the prograi pass an ordinance permitting the Health Depart ment to take necessary rat -proofing steps with or without the build ing owner's consent. The State Department also asks that the municipalities start the program off with the sum of $4, 000 to be used as "working cap ital" until such time as the entire sum can be repaid to the towns from monies reecived from build ing owners. All personnel, machinery and other equipment required to do the til-time job will be supplied by the State Health Department, th? Typhus Control Unit of the Divis ion of Sanitary Engineering ana the Typhus Control Unit of the U. S. Public Health Service. James Britton Cuthrell, WT lc, U. S. Navy, arrived Thursday to spend a leave of several days with his parents, the G. C. Cuth rells in Highland Park. Pfc Robert (Bobby) Hudgins, U. S. Army Air Force, arrived Tuesday from Williams Field, Chandler, Arizona, for a visit with his parents, Mr, and Mrs Robert Hudgins of Ann Street. George Junior Collins, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W, Collins of Wildwood, is home on furlough visiting his parents and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Sol Willis, Beaufort, RFD. Pfc Derwood Lewis, son of Mr, and Mrs. Derwood Lewis of Live Oak Street, Beaufort, arrived this week from England on a thirty day furlough. Charles Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robinson of Gor don Street, Be'aufort, arrived horn" this week from Alaska on his first furlough in more than two years. The George Wooiard Literary Centre moved into new quarters to day on the same spot. Front Street at Craven, where the old stood for many years. The new quarters ;ue higher, wider and roomier. Now Mr. Wool nrd will be able to take a full br?nth wit Sou knocking the cov cis o'.T the insg?.ines. RAYMOND CALL TO BE CARTERET REPRESENTATIVE Balloting will close on Saturday for three nominees ns supervisors of the Lower Neu.se Soil Conserva tion District. The nominees are Raymond Ball of Carteret, J. E. Riggs of Craven and V. L. Pol lock of Jones. Two supervisors for the district have already been named. They are A. H. Harris of Pamlico and N. A. Burton of Onslow. Following the election, the first district meeting will be held next Wednesday at New Bern. GIFT COLLECTION PERIOD EXTENDED Annual Farm Meeting Set For Dec. 21 The Annual Farm Bureau meet ing will be held at the Beaufort Beaufort Courthouse, Thursday night, December 21 at 8 o'clock. Mr. Joe Williams, Assistant Secre tary and Treasurer of the State Farm Bureau Organisation, will be present to deliver the address. A free barbecue supper with all accesories will be served at the Home Agent's office at 6:45 o'clock All Farm Bureau and prospec tive members and their wives are cordially invited to attend this meeting. Carteret Post 99, American Legion, has extended the preiod of gift collection for hospitalized veterans for another week. Accord ing to reports today, collections have been poor. Gifts mi$y be loft at any of Beaufort's drug stores, with any member of the Post or at the Leg ion Hut. MRS. CANADY IMPROVING Mrs. James Canady is reported asf showing marked progress et Kiii3ton Hospital. Mr. Canady is manager of the Beaufort A & P storea nd president of Beaufort Rotary. RUDOLPH ADAMS BURIED Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday at 3 P. M. at the M. E. Church, Broad Creek, for Rudolph Adams, 21, killed in an auto acci dent near Bogue Field The Rev. Ed. Jones officiated. Burial was in Broad Creek Community Ceme tery. Preston Mann of Broad Creek who was a passenger in the car with Adams is reported to be in a precarious condition at Jockson ville Hospital where both boys, weret aken. Adams is survived by a brohtre, Leslie, and three sisters, Mrs. Ed gar Lewis, Mrs. J. T. Nixon and Mrs. Joseph Morton, all of Broad Creek. Participation in the program is open to al Carteret County resi dents, juniors aged fifteen to eighteen, and seniors aged eigh teen to seventy. And if grand-pa is an octogenarian the Jaycees may be prevailed upon to make an exception. The free program sessions are planned for Monday evenings in the Beaufort high school gymna sium. The sessions will total for tv. During the first two months sessions probably will be neia dui nee a week but thereafter twice a week. Lt. Herman M. Reid of Cherry Point, an Acting Commander ol thA Civil Air Patrol, will be in active charge of the program sup ported by Lt Col. Frank E. Dawson. Subjects to be taught include navigation, meteorology, radio and theiry of fight. Toawrd the end of the course planes will be flown to Beaufort Airfield for preliminary I fight instruction. I The Jaycee committee in charge tof the program compromises Ru fus Sewell. Halsey Paul, David Wihdley and W. A. Mace. Jaycee to advertise Beaufort Preliminary plans were made to publish an illustrated brochure de scribine Beaufort. The Junior Chamber of Commerce has receiv ed approximately 1,000 queries on Beaufort and Carteret County within 1944 and believes a bro chure will save time and en hance the value of replies to quer ies which come from a wide varie ty of sources, from schools and colleges, from business concerns either desiring to do business in Carteret or to establish a business in Carteret, from sportsmen and from vacationers. James Wheatly, W. A. Mace, Ru fus Sewell and Lockwood Phillips were appointed a committee to prepare a roufgh draft of the pro posed phamplet. Pave Broad Street James Wheatly suggested that the group back a proposal to pave Broad Street and thus permit di version of truck traffic off , Ann Sri-pet. PrpsiHpnt PViaHps Hnsspii Ens. L. Br yan Springle, Son of nnnn:rpj riimplf TTlpv Paul Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Sprinele. has Lj r-i,,:., tqc. been promoted to Lieut. (jg).0f the Rotary Clum, to enlist Ro Lt. and Mrs. Springle are :nak- tary-s aid in the project. mS their home in Washington, D. Soc!, A,ecl of lhs i.v,.e. The Jaycee meeting for Janu ary 22 was set aside, during a dis cussion of the 1945 program, as Ladies' Night. The next meeting of the Junior Chamber of Com merce will be on Jan. 8 at the In let Inn. President Hassell congratulat ed James Wheatly on behalf of the membership for his manage nent Only $66,000 of $189,000 Quota Purchased Royce Vincent Emory, Cox., USNR, son of Mrs. Delia Emory of Roe, has been cited for bravery while taking part as an LST crew member in the Phillipine invasion by Commanding Officer John T. Barnett. Emory entered service in Nov. 1943. Citation : "My wholehearted congratula tions are extended to you for the splendid manner in which you ful filled your duties during the sub ject mentioned invasion. You truly lived up to the American spirit in coming "back with Mac." "You, as an individual member of the Crew of the LST deserve all the praise that goes in the Navy's phrase 'Well Done.' John T. Barnett, C. O. Carteret County's Sixth War Loan Drive under the direction of IE. Pittman is showing great gains in all classes of bond sales but class E bonds. The Class E bond quota fo -189,- 000 is reported to be slow with on ly $66,000 pnrchased while sale of other bond classifications is report ed well over the top. Carteret's total quota is $317,- 000. Harkers Island will , hold a bond rally in the Harker's Island school auditorium featured by a bidd ing" contest for service men sta tioned on the Island, a bingo par ty and a song f est. Mrs. Numa Eure reported today that sale of bonds and stamps to Beaufort school children totalled $1370.40 for this week's sale. The eighth grade class of Miss Owens bought $1,000 of the amount. School children in all county schools have compiled a record o sales proportionately better than that compiled by groups of their elders. Newport, Atlantic, Haikers Island, Morehead City all are do ing excellent sales job according to reports. - ' ' ' ' . Several thousands in Class E bonds were sold last night at th:' Morehead USO where Mrs. John Nelson's eighth grade pupils pre sented a pageant "A Last Message from Bataan." Miss Cora Josly reports that ev ery member of her Women's Divis ion Committee is performing admirably. CRAY HASSELL ENTERS SERVICE; MRS. HASSF.LL RETURNS TO BEAUFO.TT SCHOOL CHRISTMAS VACATION PERIOD Carteret County school girls and boys are looking forward to a school Christmas vacation which will start at noon on Friday, Dec. 22 and last until the morning of Thursday, January 1. ON NEW ORLEANS BUSINESS TRIP Judge Julius F. Duncan, C. R. Wheatly and A. T.' Leary left Tuesday for New Orleans on bus iness. They are expe:ted to re turn early next week. LIBRARY HOLIDAY HOURS The Carteret County Public Li brary in Beaufort will be closeo all day on Saturday, Dec. 23, on Christmas Day and on Tuesday, Dec. 26 and on New Year's Day The Bookmobile will not run on those days. Gray Hassell, son-in-law of Graham W. Duncan, will leave on December 20 for army duty. Mr. Hassell is employed in the engi neering department at Cnerry Point. Mrs. Hassell, the former Evelyn Duncan, will move from, Cherry Point to Beaufort after Christmas with her two small children, Ray Frances and Bryan King. Tuberculosis Seal Drive Making Headway Checks, money orders and cash are flowing into the coffers of the Tuberculosis Seal headquarters in Carteret Welfare Department, Mrs. Martha Loftin, chairman of the drive, reported today. Re sponse to the annual appeal is bet ter this year than ever before. Booths for sale of seals are set up in the following places: Mrs. Rudolph F. Dowdy, chair man, Morehead City, booths at Huffham's Pharmacy, Morehead Pharmacy and Morehead Post of fice. Miss Carolyn Wheatly, chair man, Beaufort, booths at Seabreeze Theatre , Beaufort Theatre and Beaufort Postoffice, Mrs. Clayton Fuleher, chairman, Atlantic, booth at Atlantic Thea tre. Mrs. Earl Davis, chairman, of the Nov. 27 dinner mesting ' Harker's Island, booth at Harner3 when the Beaufort Jaycees were Island Theatre, host to the Morehead City anil Mrs. E. M. Hummell, chairman, New Bern Jaycees. Announcement was made that the Beaufort Jaycees have been invited by the Kinston Jaycees to a Christmas party on Dec 13. Albert Royal Skarren, SK 2c, USNR, returned last week to Camp Wallace, Texas, after spend ing nine days with his mother, Mrs. Nina Skarren of Broad St., Beaufort. Ed. Note: The following story was published in the Square Knot, the Camp Wallace weekly publication. By C. R. McNally Down in Warehouse No. 905 there works a very quiet young man named Albert Skarren, SK 2c, who hails from Beaufort, N. C. If it were up to 'Al,' no one would know anything more than that he works in the warehouse at Wallace. Our fighting forces are plaster ing Tokyo for all they are worth nowadays but Al shall never for get that surprise attack on Japan that Jimmy Doolittle and his men made. The B-25's that hit Tokyo o nthat day came from the decks of the USS Hornet. Al Skarren was a member of the Hornet's . crew then. Jap Came Out In 3 Separate Waves Tbat Day During the 13 months aboard the famous carrier, Al served as Storekeeper and had his ' Bottle Station on a 1.1 Anti-Aircraft gun position. The Hornet's menu con sisted of the Batle of Midway, the Coral Sea Battle, the Tokyo raid and the final and disastrous fight at Santa Cruz. "The Japs came at us in three separate waves on that last day. The 26th day of October, 1943. I don't know how many planes there were for they came at us from ev erywhere and we wfKAH i I count them. Our shf 2(ppR I of condition by a f ' I on the first attackEVENTATlVE I ' ond attack came somewhere near noon, we were being towed at a bout four knots and we just stood there and took it. All in all, the Japs put seven 'tin fish' in us be fore we heard the 'abandon ship' call." Flame Shoot Over Gun " We asked Al if there were any particular incidents that were more exciting than others. It seems that he was on a gun just forward of the bridge when one of the two Jap planes to crash on the boat hit the bridge. "The flames and the fumes shot right over our guns, and we had a hard time get ting our breath." An interesting note about the aftermath of this great sea bat tle is the fact that our destroyers, late on the night of the 26th, fired five hundred rounds into the Hor net but were unable to sink her. A PBY craft bombed the ship the following morning in order to sink her. 1 REV. W. STANLEY POTTER NEW HEAD OF MINISTER'S ASSOCIATION booth at Morehead Villa. Cold Weather B rrrrrrr t Plans Take Shape School Cafeteria The Rev. W. Stanley Potter, pas tor of Ann Street Methodist Church, Beaufort, will preside as President at the first 1945 meet ing of the Coastal Ministers' As sociation at the Morehead City Civic Center on Monday, Jan. 8. Mr. Potter was elected to head the group during the next year at the final 1944 meeting of the As sociation. The Rev. G. C. Cuthrell of Marshallberg was elected vice president; the Rev. G. C. Hedge peth, secretary-treasurer. The Rev. John H. Bunn, D. D., the Rev. Luther R. Bridgers, D. D. and the Rev. M. 0. Alexander were appointed members of the 1945 program committee. The Association plans to under take a program of vesper services for the Morehead City USO. If the wind continues out of the northwest red flannels, bed warm- ars, ear muffs and whatever your own ingenuity can concoct will come in mighty hand tonignt, to morrow and perhaps over the week end. The Red Man in the ehermom eter at the United States Labora tory on Fiver's Island squatted down to 28 degrees early this morn ing and if he stays 1ii thta posi tion much longer water pipes, rad iators and noses in Carteret are in for trouble.. Low temperatures since Satur day, Dec. 9, were: Saturday 38 degrees; Sunday 36; Monday 42; Tuesday 34 ; Wednesday 3 1 ; Thurs day 28. Plans for a cafeteria in the Beaufort high school took detinita shape at the Beaufort Parent Teacher Association meeting Tues day evening in the high school auditorium. After hearing a report from Dr. H. F. Prytherch on his recent inspection of the cafeteria of the cafeteria of the New Hope school near Goldsbovo, Dr. W. L. Wood ard, president of the Associa tion, appointed a cemmitte? to ap pear before the County Board of Commissioner.; to discus. financ ing the project. Current plans call for a cafe teria lar?e enough to feed 85 at one seating. Cost of a building with complete equipment is esti mated at under $2300. A report wr.s made that school rooms with north exposure have been cold during the recent cold spells. Dr. Woodard appointed a committee to investigate. Attendance prizes were won by Miss Piver's First Grade, Miss Styron's Seventh Gradt and by Miss Way's Ninth Grade. The Beaufort high school Glee Club under the direction of Mrs. Graydon Paul gave a program of Christmas music. CLERK HASSELL HOME County Clerk L. W. Hassell, who underwent a major operation at Veterans' Hospital, Fayetteville, is expected to return home today. DAVE MERRILL SHOWING PROGRESS Mr. Dave Merrill is reported as improving at James Walker Hos pital, Wilmington.
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